Patrick Kavanagh Quotes
- It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is…
- Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.
- Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to…
- What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
- I dabbled in verse and it became my life
- Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
- A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
- There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.
- God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.
- Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic…
- On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.
- A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.
- Ancient Ireland sweeping In again with all its unbaptized beauty: The calm evening, The whitethorn blossoms, The smell from ditches that were not Christian.